On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 01:23:01PM -0700, Keith E OHara wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:12:16 -0700, <lilypond-devel-requ...@gnu.org> wrote: > > >On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 00:47:01 -0700, Graham wrote: > >This is directed at people saying "I can't do anything to help..." > > > You sent this to -devel; did you intend -user ?
No; I know from experience that this nets a few well-intentioned but clueless users. Sometimes they turn out to be great contributors (and even senior developers), but from experience only about 30% of them result in a net plus to lilypond development. I wanted developers (some of whom have said "I can't do anything to help with the current Critical issues"), and highly interested, skilled users. Like yourself. :) See below for more. > I have a couple such overrides already from trying out the first > alpha. In the next two evenings, I intend to try 2.13.37 on a > few piano pieces, and one full-size orchestral score plus parts, > and something string-quartet size from mutopia. I can post here > any spacing overrides that seem wise, with tiny cropped images > showing why I think they are wise, by Friday. That sounds ideal! > However, I have no familiarity with how vocal music is supposed > to look, and I tend to avoid tweaks myself. Graham's request > seems quite easy for a few people to cooperate on, if we test > the union of the overrides that we collectively need. That would also be great! Would you be willing to organize such an effort, particularly including lilypond-user? I don't want to send an email there, because then people (quite reasonably) ask me about it, and I just don't have the time for that -- it's not yet 9am on Wednesday, and I've already used up 7 hours of my allowable 10 hours of lilypond time for this week. But if you were willing to organize the effort, help well-intentioned users learn how to write tweaks, make apologies for bugs or missing documentation, etc., this would definitely be a great help towards 2.14! :) Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
